bigmessowires said: Could you take a photo? I don't think I've ever seen an "external disk drive icon". What happens if you boot an earlier system from the internal floppy, l…

but my all means pictures are nice

i have.  when those filters go bad they can cause any of the above.

Charlieman said: Don't give up with old batteries. The Portable uses a lead acid battery, which can be exercised, possibly to rejuvenation. Boaters know people who have batte…

Could you take a photo? I don't think I've ever seen an "external disk drive icon". What happens if you boot an earlier system from the internal floppy, like System 6?

can you take pictures of these main boards…..     So far all i am aware of, is the earlier Macintosh II boards with all Axial caps,   { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lig…

well heres an update, i finally got around to trying something on it.  I got out an old dell big crt monitor.  If i remember right it supported up to 1280x1024.  Anyway i hooked up…

Thanks for all the answers.

After looking around for the 5mb LLF rom bin file I realize you already warned me about the two different chips on another forum, plus tested to confirm that you could not substitu…

Schmoburger said: Highly likely I'd say... everything else Apple made in that era had cheap rubbish caps etc so I see no reason the Airport card would be an exception. lol …

Macdrone said: Router probably is wep2 and original airport only supports WEP. Click to expand... Yep this was also my immediate thought too, before even considering hard…

Its a little late for me to post, but I agree with CCC's and Uniserver's findings.

Found a couple you sent me a while back, uni. I'll update

Ok. I'll change them if I have any. If not, I'll PM you. Been looking for spares, but seems like 30 is minimum order.

cc-333 is correct the problem is the bourns filter has gone bad.    its a common problem. they go bad in a few different ways, causing oddness. i change those... but usually i sug…

I've had read/write problems with bourns in the past, but not this. Uniserver or technight would be the experts on that.

Maybe it's a faulty Bourns filter? That seems to be a common cause of bizarre floppy-related problems like this. c

Caps have been replaced (not by me) no battery it was removed and there was no corrosion. Is the searching for the external floppy part of the rom, software, or other hardware? F…

battery explosion?

caps? corrosion on motherboard?

The internal floppy is working ok. The warning box shows a Mac with an external floppy drive next to it with the warning. Should have clarified that

If it thought it was the floppy, it would show a floppy icon. Do you not have a floppy you can boot from?

I would guess the floppy drive is stuck in and it does not move or something to that effect.

I bought a Data I/O System 19 with Unipak that should arrive shortly.  It should go down to 2708s.  It's  a gamble.  I am also building an ME1702a programmer so I can do 1702a's to…

For years I ran a Mac 512Ke, Plus, and SE with system 6.0.4 floppies. I can search and look about for them but I no longer have 800K Disks to copy to. I need to hit up eBay for old…